Trump waited nearly a week to deploy federal resources to help with flood rescue and recovery. One emergency management expert called it “absolutely insane.” A nearly week-long funding delay by President Donald Trump, as well as cuts to federal weather forecasting personnel, likely exacerbated the devastation caused by the historic storm that hit Alaska earlier this month, a […]
“They are intentionally breaking government—even the parts that help us when we are deep in crisis,” said Sen. Chris Murphy. Outrage continues to grow against U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem over her response to the deadly floods that ravaged Texas last week. According to a Friday report from The New York Times, more than two-thirds […]
Congressional Democrats want investigations “at every level of government of what went wrong” and to “stop the dismantling of federal agencies.” U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem renewed her call Wednesday to “eliminate” the Federal Emergency Management Agency calling it “slow to respond” to the deadly floods that have killed more than 120 people in Texas over the […]
“Delay is the name of the game here,” said one legal analyst. “If they can just stop the clock until January 20th, then… the attorney general will be a Trump appointee and they can kill the whole thing.” A ileen Cannon, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida, ordered the Justice Department on Tuesday to temporarily […]